Crypto's War On Miners? It Might Already Be Over

optimized hardware can quickly dominate a network, and swallow the rewards in exchange for the increased hashpower – others warned that ASIC manufacturers will always be a step ahead.

Lead developer of siacoin, David Vorick, told CoinDesk:

"I think any GPU-mined coin is going to become an ASIC-mined coin at some point. Bitmain has been pretty methodical about demonstrating this."